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oaten

oaten

9.2
Made from oats
  • adjective
  • /ˈoʊtən/
translation icon : de avena
  • At the festival, they served traditional dishes made with oaten flour.

Examples

  • In his Shepherd's Calendar, Spenser talked of the herdsman's "oaten pipe."

    Academic text (1998)

  • The farmer baked some warm oaten bread for breakfast.

  • In self-conscious terror that he knew exactly what I was thinking, I raised my camera and, barely aiming, shot him as I was later to paint him, head thrown back and oaten hair riffling in the wind.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • She enjoyed a healthy snack of oaten cookies with her tea.

Synonyms

oaty
vsoaten
3.9

Having the taste, smell, or texture of oats, often made from oats

refers to being made from or connected to oats rather than sensory taste

Surface Forms

oaten positive

Morphology

oaten = oat (transparent) = oat + en

The adjective is clearly formed from the noun 'oat' with the productive suffix '-en' meaning 'made from or containing', so learners can readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Oaten comes from the simple word oat, the grain, plus the ending -en that means 'made of', just like wooden means 'made of wood'. So oaten means 'made from oats'.